06/08/2026
Had the best weekend with , and Joey making curtains for her wee garden bothy!
Joey was creative director AND maker, picking the dye colours, placement and cropping of pieces before sewing it all together. Love love loved this curtain collab! Joey's vision was curtains that were dyed to look like "ripples you get at the bottom of a pool" (unreal) and Paul helped with a tying technique to achieve that ❤️ can you believe?
Joey picked oak gall (+iron powder) from to dye with and we headed to the kitchen to make our mordant and dye baths. We tied all the pieces after mordant bathing them, then dunked them into the yellow oak gall until adding iron to make everything black...
..but it didn't work! Or so we thought! Bee rinsed one with cold water, and as a scientist (yes, really, and her tie technique? Say less.) decided we do one control bath, and one with cold water. We split the goods and decided to reconvene later. Later, as my bath cooled, the dye took and we all did the reveal over FaceTime. Success!
On Sunday we met at my studio and cut the pieces to be used and Joey did all the sewing - super straight for her first go on a sewing machine! Curtains - DONE!
Even though *ahem* my piece never made the final cut... Kids rule, and no one can tell me otherwise.
PS Hamish's face at the end!
